Movers & Shakers for Sept. 3, 2017

Sunday

Tighe & Bond announced that Douglas Landry, of Natick, has joined the firm as a vice president and leader for the firm’s real estate sector.

Landry has 30 years of public and private sector experience, and will serve Tighe & Bond’s real estate development clients across the Northeast, working from the firm’s Westwood office.

Landry has leadership experience on numerous high profile projects that include all facets of master planning, land development and transportation strategy; zoning; and environmental permitting. Representative projects include the WGBH headquarters in Boston; the Bristol-Myers Squibb large scale cell culture facility at Devens; the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Needham; the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield; and the China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation MBTA rail car manufacturing and assembly plant in Springfield.

Landry serves on the national board of directors of NAIOP and the National Steering Committee for LOCUS Developers, a private sector-focused program of Smart Growth America. He was recently appointed to the advisory committee of Northeastern University’s School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. He is also a member of the American Planning Association, the Urban Land Institute and is an active participant with the Massachusetts Alliance for Economic Development. Landry received his Master of Urban Planning from the University of Michigan and his Bachelor of Arts in political science from the UMass Amherst.

Landry is a resident of Natick, where he serves as an elected town meeting member and an appointed member of the economic development committee.

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State Fire Marshal Peter J. Ostroskey announced that David Evans has been named as the new director of the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy, a division of the state Department of Fire Services.

Evans is deputy chief of the West Newbury Fire Department, a member of the Groveland Fire Department and was the assistant principal of the Pentucket Regional High School for nearly a decade. At Pentucket, he combined education and public safety through the school’s Safety and Public Service Innovation Academy. It engages students in a unique sequence of courses and industry certifications that equips them to serve communities. Many have joined local fire departments and graduated from MFA.

Evans has a bachelor’s in American history from Salem State College, a master’s degree in liberal studies from the University of New Hampshire, a School Principal Certification at Northeastern University and is a certified Firefighter I/II and has completed fire training in numerous areas. He has worked for DFS in the Special Operations Unit since 2016.